• Bio:

    Professor Epstein is interested in how young people’s social identities influence teaching and learning in urban schools. She is the co-editor of Teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts: A critical sociocultural approach to history education (2017), co-author of Education, globalization and the nation (2016); author of Interpreting national history: Race, identity and pedagogy in classrooms and communities (2009) and co-editor of Teaching United States history: Dialogues between historians and educators (2009), as well as several articles on history and citizenship education. In 2017, she was a Visiting Professor at Ulster University (Northern Ireland), a Fulbright Specialist at the Federal University of Goias (Brazil) and a 2013 Fulbright Senior Scholar at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

  • Current Projects:

    She is interested in how young people’s social identities and teachers’ perspectives and pedagogies influence teaching and learning in urban schools. She is the author of Interpreting national history: Race, identity and pedagogy in classrooms and communities (Routledge Press, 2009) and co-editor of Teaching United States history: Dialogues between historians and educators (Routledge Press, 2009), as well as several articles on teaching and learning history.

  • Research Areas: Education Policy, Human Rights